On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:22 AM, Wido den Hollander <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 08/07/2012 11:01 PM, Kevin Kluge wrote: > >> >> The point David also made is the question: Which platforms are we going >>> to >>> build binaries for? >>> >>> To put it in a simple way: "The agent is nothing more then a couple of >>> JAR >>> files which need to be run with JSVC and it needs the libvirt-java >>> bindings to >>> talk to a recent version of libvirt" >>> >>> It will probably work under almost every recent release of a modern Linux >>> distribution, but as a project you have to set boundaries. >>> >>> The question remains, for which platforms do we build binaries? >>> >>> My vote remains: >>> - Ubuntu 12.04 >>> - CentOS 6.2 >>> - CentOS 6.3 >>> - RHEL 6.2 >>> - RHEL 6.3 >>> >> >> Previously we had these plus Fedora builds. Fedora was < 10% of >> downloads. We could go without Fedora for ACS 4 to help us get the release >> out the door, then evaluate adding it later. >> >> > (Disclaimer: nofi!) > > Do people run Fedora on production platforms? Isn't CentOS/RHEL the > distribution for production and Fedora for Desktops and cutting edge test > machines? > > +1 The CentOS/RHEL distros are much more conservative while the Fedora distros are trying to keep up with the rapid hardware changes on desktops and laptops. This is mostly due to the fact that workstation and laptop hardware evolved much faster with new devices emerging more rapidly. So the desktop OS needs to evolve to keep up. And that means more instability. Anyone wanting to run virtual machines is probably going to have a number of headless hypervisors. I run KVM on ubuntu server without X. On the Ubuntu side, I think the choice is ubuntu-server. If you make the CentOS/RHEL and Fedora distinction, you'll also need to do the same on the Ubuntu side. If you target Ubuntu Server and RHEL/CentOS it's highly likely that you automatically support the desktop editions (Fedora, and Ubuntu Desktop). -- Best Regards, -- Alex
